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Speaker 1: Hello Marlins fans, and welcome to this edition of the

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Speaker 1: Marlins Recap Pod. For the Tuesday May seventeenth game versus

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Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals and for Miami, they did start Cody Potit,

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Speaker 1: who was coming in for his flu Stussato who has

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Speaker 1: been sidelined to the fifteen day. I and Cody Potit

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Speaker 1: pitched amazing four and two third innings, one hit, zero,

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Speaker 1: really great performance from Cody Potit coming in as a

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Speaker 1: spot starter. You couldn't ask for anything more in fifty

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Speaker 1: four pitches four and two thirds. He did get injured

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Speaker 1: with his thumb fingernail. Whatnot if Don Manly noted in

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Speaker 1: the post game a press conference, if he will come

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Speaker 1: back from that, and I believe he deserves another start,

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Speaker 1: A thousand percent. Cody Potit deserves another start. He has

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Speaker 1: pitched well, really well. Actually this entire season is era

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Speaker 1: right now is zero point four to three, a whip

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Speaker 1: of zero point eighty six. The only disappointing thing is

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Speaker 1: he didn't get to win, and also the amount of

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Speaker 1: innings pitched. It was a really heavy bullpen game front

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Speaker 1: me as they did bring in five bullpen pitchers for

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Speaker 1: this game, Anthony Bender, Olchert Bath Scott, and Cole Soltzer.

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Speaker 1: But I also want to bring up the hitting, as

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Speaker 1: we did see mcguill Rojass have a three hit game,

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Speaker 1: one hit shot of the cycle which was a triple.

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Speaker 1: He got the home run, he got the single, he

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Speaker 1: got the double, and it was really great to see

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Speaker 1: from McGill Rohass, who has had almost maybe not the

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Speaker 1: best starts to a season, but nonetheless he really showed

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Speaker 1: out against the Washington Nationals, had a really great game

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Speaker 1: and I really boost his confidence going in the last

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Speaker 1: game against the Nationals and then the three games set

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Speaker 1: versus the Atlanta Breys. And that's really great to see,

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Speaker 1: me from your veteran and from the captain of the team.

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Speaker 1: Other notes, sus Aguilar with two hits another great sign

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Speaker 1: for him hitting two seventy six has just been so

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Speaker 1: great this season. Really great player from Miami. Also, we

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Speaker 1: got his Sue Sanchez coming into the game. You might

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Speaker 1: be wondering, oh, sus Sanchez, what happened? He wasn't announced

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Speaker 1: in the lineup as a starter. Brandon la cruz Get

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Speaker 1: did get injured on his elbow. It was middle nic

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Speaker 1: pitch came hit his elbow and he had to be

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Speaker 1: taken out. We wish him best of health going forward.

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Speaker 1: It came at the right forearm contusion. We wish d

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Speaker 1: l c well in his recovery and we'll monitor how

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Speaker 1: long if he is going to be out or how

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Speaker 1: long on the il. But for his Sue Santas coming

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Speaker 1: in and having, you know, the slump he's been on

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Speaker 1: in May, just not good hitting hitting under one hundred

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Speaker 1: and to him come in and get a big home run,

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Speaker 1: that was so great to see for missus Sanchez and

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Speaker 1: that really boosts his confidence also and coming out of

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Speaker 1: the slump. And we talked to him after the game.

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Speaker 1: He mentioned it was really mentally everything when you're in

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Speaker 1: the slump, just all mentally, and this is really big

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Speaker 1: for him, the home run, and it will get him

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Speaker 1: out of the slump. Fix pitchers are such a great player,

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Speaker 1: and I think this home run will help him continue

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Speaker 1: to be a great player and continue to get some

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Speaker 1: more hits as we're going in into the season. And nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: it was just a really great game from Miami start

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Speaker 1: to the end. Some notes from the relief pitchers. Okert

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Speaker 1: two third innings, one hit, two strikeouts, two walks, and

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Speaker 1: Okert bases loaded three to two, count two outs to

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Speaker 1: Nelson Cruise, he walked, two batteries, gave up a hit.

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Speaker 1: It was not looking good for Okert. It looked like

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Speaker 1: another Marlins Nelson Cruz Grand Slam single double, whatnot runs

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Speaker 1: come in another blown opportunity by Miami, But that was

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Speaker 1: not it. Okert three to two, right down the middle,

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Speaker 1: striked out Nelson Cruz. That was a big moment in

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Speaker 1: the game, a really big moment. Clutch plate by Steven Okerk,

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Speaker 1: really great to see from him, and overall, really great

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Speaker 1: performances by the bullpen. The only think maybe one notch

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Speaker 1: would be Brian Anthony Bass excuse me, who gave him

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Speaker 1: two hits, one earned run, only pitched two thirds. I

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Speaker 1: think I believe you only had eleven pitches before he

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Speaker 1: was taken out. That was a really short appearance from

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Speaker 1: Anthony Bass and they really did use the bullpen this gang.

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Speaker 1: But overall, a really great performance by Miami, great performances

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Speaker 1: by Aguilar he Sus Sanchez, McGill, Rojas and of course

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Speaker 1: Cody Petite who has in my eyes my eyes earned

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Speaker 1: himself another start. But that does it for me, makes

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Speaker 1: Wednesday six forty pm. The best pitching matchup of this

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Speaker 1: series Josiah Gray versus Pablo Lowe Paz. Make sure to

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Speaker 1: share the scrap, follow, and do remember this always go fish.

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Speaker 2: Today is May eighteenth, twenty twenty two, and this is

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Speaker 2: big Fish, Small Pot. I'm Andrew Ridall, and I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you about how there could be more

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Speaker 2: to unlock with Joey Wendall. So this current injury is

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Speaker 2: the third time his hamstring has caused him to lose games,

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Speaker 2: dating back early in May, three games away from the field,

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Speaker 2: and that ill stint in March in April of twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: But like twenty nineteen, the injury has been a bit

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Speaker 2: shy on public details. Per Christina da Nicola of MLB

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Speaker 2: dot Com, Joey Wendell has been hitting since he landed

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Speaker 2: on the eye. As Don Mattingly stated, he felt good

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Speaker 2: right away, just like the last time he feels good.

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Speaker 2: No part of this injury threatens to be career reducing. Certainly,

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Speaker 2: the presence of a hamstring strain does mean more ham

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Speaker 2: string strains could be on the horizon for Wendell, and

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Speaker 2: there are obvious possible exacerbations of a hamstring strain in

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Speaker 2: where chronic pain can develop due to just constant tension

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Speaker 2: and the muslim balance is that lead to that dispersal

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Speaker 2: of force in a high impact sport Today, the real

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Speaker 2: concern with Joey Wendall's hamstring is that it limits his

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Speaker 2: range of motion in the mechanics of his swing. It

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Speaker 2: might be that there's something to be said about load

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Speaker 2: management here. Joey Wendall was brought into the organization as

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Speaker 2: someone who could be a supplemental infielder, and to this

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Speaker 2: point he has played games on both sides of the diamond,

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Speaker 2: to adapt to the footwork at second and short where

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Speaker 2: he'd gone on the il. He'd played in just about

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Speaker 2: as many games as Miggy and Jazz, faced more times

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Speaker 2: certainly he's lived up to his billing as an All

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Speaker 2: star infielder with obvious ability in every stage of the game.

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Speaker 2: I wonder though, if there could be more in his bat.

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Speaker 2: Talking with Fanografts in twenty eighteen, Joey Wendall said, personally,

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Speaker 2: I feel the best swings are natural. I think some

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Speaker 2: of the best swings came before I had any instruction.

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Speaker 2: At the same time, you can slowly build them as

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Speaker 2: you progress. I'd say that my career has gone from

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Speaker 2: took too much input from too many people and kind

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Speaker 2: of lost some of my natural ability as a hitter.

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Speaker 2: I lost some of my athleticism and fluidity of my swing.

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Speaker 2: Casualties to the demands of the over forty seven one

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Speaker 2: hundred plate appearances Joey Wendell, who's now thirty two, has

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Speaker 2: faced in professional baseball. It might simply be that those

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Speaker 2: encounters have worn him down and out of his natural swing. Now,

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Speaker 2: hitting without the worry of fighting off a perfectly located

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Speaker 2: bring his swing to new heights. His performance in late

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Speaker 2: judgment for an il stint was maybe protracted over a

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Speaker 2: and whatever else. Yeah, I could actually speculate endlessly because

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Speaker 2: there's a real case where I don't know what I

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Speaker 2: that Wendell was able to catch back up to pitching

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Speaker 2: In his April seventeenth RBI single, for example, Joey Wendell,

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Speaker 2: he took like a quick cut at the ball with

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Speaker 2: Joey lifts his left leg as he sweeps the force

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Speaker 2: But so often injuries do come from those strength and

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Speaker 2: balances like your pitcher's elbow that has taken too much

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Speaker 2: finally had it. The right way to remedy Wendell's hammy

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Speaker 2: speculation into this often closeted strength and conditioning department and

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Speaker 2: their plan for Joey Wendall's rehab. But as much as

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Speaker 2: be back with a little more kick and he might

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Speaker 2: not need some of those days in the mind coming

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Speaker 2: remained really noncommittal on the subject. It really could be

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Speaker 2: more kick sometime, falling back into his natural swing. Maybe

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Speaker 2: enough of a break for Joey and his bat to

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Speaker 2: get a little more stability to take more of his

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Speaker 2: Today May eighteenth, Mmy Marlins will be closing out the

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Speaker 2: series against the Washington Nationals as Pablo Lopez will be

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Speaker 2: taken on Josiah Gray and first pitch will be at

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Speaker 2: your typical six forty Eastern time for the fish strips.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back to your ears tomorrow and I'll be

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Speaker 2: back with you ahead of Atlanta.

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